Compassion Quote by Dorothy Day

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

— Dorothy Day

“Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.”

— Dorothy Day

“Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has gone before…

— Augustine of Hippo

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

— William E. Simon

“As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of seven works…

— Philip Yancey

“The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly…

— Newton Lee

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

— Saint John Chrysostom

“I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the cities and…

— John Rucyahana

Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

— Uthman ibn Affan

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged…

— Corita Kent

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry.…

— Mr. T

“Feeding the hungry, healing the sick, rebuking hypocrisy, pleading for faith--this was Christ showing us the way of the Father... In His life and…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“That churchgoers do the lion's share of the charitable work in our communities is simply untrue. They get credit for it because they do…

— Dale McGowan

“Emergency food has become very useful indeed, and to a very large assortment of people and institutions. The United States Department of Agriculture uses…

— Janet Poppendieck

I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot…

— Alice Walker